Post by Valas Hune on Jul 31, 2006 22:36:53 GMT -5
Tanker Chapter
The story opens in late 2007, two years after the events of Metal Gear Solid, on the George Washington Bridge in New York City. Solid Snake and Otacon now belong to Philanthropy, a UN-recognized fringe organization formed in order to eliminate the various Metal Gears constructed due to Revolver Ocelot's distribution of the Metal Gear REX blueprints on the black market. Snake, aided by Otacon via codec, is investigating the new Metal Gear RAY being developed by the Marines to guard against the proliferation of REXes. While the Marines transport RAY offshore aboard the oil tanker U.S.S. Discovery for testing, soldiers invade the ship by helicopter and dispose of all the Marines on duty above decks.
The mission turns bad rapidly as these troops, formerly of the Russian military and led by the disgraced Colonel Sergei Gurlukovich, seize the tanker and plant explosives aboard it. Snake personally runs into Gurlukovich's daughter Olga, and disables her with a tranquilizer gun, before proceeding into the ship's hold. A large unit of Marines is receiving a briefing from Scott Dolph, their commander, on the new RAY and its role, at the conclusion of which Ocelot strides on stage, applauding. Gurlukovich and his troops descend, taking Dolph hostage, leading to a Mexican standoff between the forces. The tension is broken as Ocelot betrays Gurlukovich, kills Dolph, and detonates the explosives, advising the remaining U.S. and Russian soldiers to swim for shore if they value their lives.
During the ensuing carnage, Liquid Snake's personality usurps Ocelot through his transplanted arm. After mocking the rapidly aging Solid Snake, he boards RAY, carves the ship in two with it, and escapes. Once Ocelot recovers, he notifies former president Solidus Snake that their mission had been successful.
Following these events, Solid Snake was declared dead and framed as the man responsible for the tanker spill, and the Big Shell decontamination plant was created to contain the purported toxins in the wake of the spill.
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Plant Chapter
This chapter begins on April 29, 2009, two years after the Tanker incident, as video game players assume the role of Raiden, a rather novice FOXHOUND operative whose mission is to rescue the President and other hostages being held captive by a terrorist group aided by former Soviet soldiers in the Big Shell, a decontamination facility erected at sea to clean up the oil spill which resulted from the sinking of the Discovery. He is aided by his girlfriend Rosemary as data manager, and Colonel Roy Campbell as the mission commander.
Raiden discovers that the Big Shell is nothing but elaborate camouflage for the development of an advanced mobile fortress dubbed Arsenal Gear. Solidus Snake, with the assistance of the remnants of Gurlukovich's private army (now led by Olga) and Ocelot (who has claimed that Snake was responsible for the sinking of the Discovery and the death of Olga's father, Sergei) has seized the facility and is attempting to use it to fight the enigmatic Patriots responsible for the theft of RAY. Following an elaborate sequence of double-crosses it is revealed that Raiden and Olga have each been coerced - directly or indirectly - into assisting the Patriots in eliminating Solidus. Meanwhile, Snake is aboard, battling both sides in an attempt to destroy Arsenal. To this goal, he is assisted by Otacon, and his estranged step-sister Emma, who designs a computer virus which should disable Arsenal.
Once again, Ocelot reveals himself to be a double-agent, trying to kill his allies on behalf of the Patriots. Liquid then resurfaces through the grafted arm and declares his intention to use RAY to take on the Patriots, and goads Snake into following him while setting Arsenal Gear on a collision course with New York City. Snake then dives off Arsenal Gear in pursuit of Liquid. After Arsenal comes to rest, the Patriots, and their goal - control of the dissemination of information, in order to ensure an Orwellian peace - are revealed. Solidus hopes to use Raiden's implants to identify the Patriots. On the morning of April 30, 2009, over 200 years after George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States, Raiden eliminates Solidus atop Federal Hall (where Washington's inauguration occurred).
After the final credits roll, it is shown that Otacon is able to decode the viral disc provided by Emma and uncover its information. The information on the disc does reveal the identities of all twelve members of the Wisemen's Committee, the inner circle of The Patriots, with one of the names shockingly enough belonging to one of Snake and Otacon's biggest financial contributors. The disc also reveals that the Patriots did reside in Manhattan, but that they have all been dead for about a century.
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Raiden's field commander was named Daniel Quinn ("Colonel"). His support team consisted of Maxine "Max" Work, an Asian woman who saves game data and quotes Shakespeare, and William "Doc" Wilson, the creator of GW. All three would turn out to be AIs. None of these characters survived to the final edition. Along with Stillman, these names were taken from the novel City of Glass.
There were two additional members of Dead Cell: Old Boy and Chinaman. Old Boy was Dead Cell's strategist and a former Nazi general, and was over 100 years old. Chinaman was Vietnamese and a native of Chinatown, and was an expert in martial arts (His movements intended to be like Jet Li), and has used most of Vamp's bullet parrying moves. Both were cut from game appearances -- Old Boy being first (who later was used as The End), and Chinaman next. The only place to see them is the animated footage of "The Liquidation Of Dead Cell."
Chinaman originally used most of the moves that would later become Vamp's, such as running up walls and over water as well as being a strong swimmer. Another ability of his was the dragon tattoo on his body coming alive in water. This would happen when the player battles with him in the Shell 2 Core filtration chamber, where Vamp is fought in the final game. However the player would also actually have to battle Chinaman underwater, and he would send sharks after Raiden if he started bleeding.
Liquid Snake, controlling Revolver Ocelot, activates Arsenal Gear's navigation system and sets the target as Federal Hall. This detail is never explained in the game, possibly for the same reason that the following scenes were removed.
A scene depicting Arsenal Gear's displacement of the Statue of Liberty and half of Manhattan was removed following the events of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
A short coda was to appear after the credits, a breaking newscast showing the Statue of Liberty's new resting place, Ellis Island (see above). The anchorwoman in this piece would've been Karen Hôjô, the heroine from Hideo Kojima's Policenauts.
Solidus Snake was the 43rd President, and James Johnson is the 44th.
Early concept art shows that Vamp was initially conceived as a woman, while Peter Stillman was originally planned to be a younger version of Ed Brown, also from Policenauts.
The AI speaking to Raiden during the final codec conversation is not GW, but another AI named JFK.
Both Ames and President Johnson initially thought Raiden was an assassin sent in by the Patriots to dispose of the President (though according to Ocelot, the President was in on the conspiracy- "Of course Johnson knew what was going on, but he played out his allotted part").
All three Snakes are (or were) undergoing advanced aging as a result of the cloning process.
Iroquois Pliskin and Rose were supposed to have blond hair -- Pliskin's dyed to cover his identity, and Rose's as her natural color.
In the passage where Raiden has to swim in order to reach Emma, the player was originally supposed to face sharks. The trick to overcoming them was for Raiden to strategically leave blood in certain places to lead them away and then swim past them before they could attack him.
As a child, Raiden took part in the Liberian Civil War.
Three additional game modes were planned that didn't make it to the final game: a Bomb Disposal mode (side-missions set in the Tanker and Plant stages where the player must locate and defuse Fatman's bombs), a Mantis Mask mode (where the player can read other characters' thoughts and detect their lies) and a two-player versus mode.
The Bomb Disposal missions were later integrated into Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance.
The idea of reading characters' thoughts was kept, but in a watered-down form. Instead, the player can only sense their own character's during CODEC conversations by pressing the R1 or R2 buttons.
The Arsenal Gear stage was designed to be much longer than it was in the finished game. One of the proposed areas was a temple wherein the player fought against Vamp (in the original plan, Chinaman appears in the Shell 2 Core filtration chamber instead of Vamp).
At the point where Solidus dies, Raiden was supposed to have cut the rope on Federal Hall's flagpole where an American flag was supposed to fall onto Solidus' body (albeit the reason for the patriotic music).
At the ending scene, American flags were supposed to be on all the flagpoles in New York.
Jack and Rose were named after the protagonists of the film Titanic, just as the names Hal and Dave appeared in the first MGS title.
Jack and Rose talk about King Kong and Godzilla. According to the GameSpot documentary, King Kong is Raiden and Godzilla is Snake. Raiden was brought from one place to another and used, and Snake, like Godzilla, was an experiment.
Spoilers end here.
Weapons
Many of the game's weapons are taken directly from existing military hardware, though some completely fictional weapons (such as Fortune's railgun) appear as well.
Pistols:
Heckler & Koch USP (German 9 mm auto-loader, used by Olga and then Snake)
Heckler & Koch MK23 "SOCOM" Mk23 Offensive Handgun System Trials - Phase Two Model (German .45 cal pistol. In the Real World, this model of the weapon was a prototype, and differs from the US Navy's Mk23 Mod O. Given to Raiden by Pliskin)
Makarov PM (Russian 9 mm semi-automatic pistol, used by some Russian Spetsnaz members and tossed overboard by Olga)
Colt Single Action Army (.45 Long Colt revolver, used by Ocelot)
Beretta 92F (Italian 9 mm semi-automatic pistol; United States Armed Forces' standard-issue sidearm, designated "M9;" used by Marines)
Beretta M9 tranquilizer pistol (modified to fire tranquilizer darts; does not exist in the real world)
GLOCK 18 (Austria 9 mm automatic pistol, used by Fatman, Spetsnaz reinforcement and Big Shell attack teams)
Sub-Machine Guns:
FN P90 (Belgian 5.7 mm Personal Defense Weapon, used by Tengu Commandos and Solidus)
Assault Rifles:
Kalashnikov AKS-74U (Russian 5.45 mm Compact Assault Rifle, based on the AK-74 which itself is based on the AK-47, used by most Russian soldiers and Raiden)
M4 Carbine (US 5.56 mm Assault Rifle, used by Marines, Navy SEALs, Pliskin, Snake, Raiden and Presidential Security teams)
Nikonov AN-94 (Russian 5.45 mm Assault Rifle, used by Big Shell Russian guards)
Sniper Rifles:
Heckler & Koch PSG1 (German 7.62 mm semi-automatic sniper rifle used by Pliskin and Raiden)
PSG-1T (modified to fire tranquilizer rounds; does not exist in the real world)
Shotguns:
Franchi SPAS-12 (Italian 12-gauge dual action shotgun, used by Big Shell attack teams)
Explosives:
Frag grenade
Stun grenade
Chaff Grenade (foils electronic surveillance systems; does not exist in the real world)
C-4 plastic explosive
M18A1 Claymore Antipersonnel Mine
Heavy Artillery:
M203 grenade launcher (U.S. 40 mm Grenade Launcher, used by Marines, Navy SEALs, and Pliskin/Snake and Presidential Security teams)
RGB6 Multi-Grenade Launcher (Croatian copy of the South African Milkor Mark 6 Grenade Launcher, used by Raiden)
Nikita Remote Control Rocket Launcher (fly-by-wire TV-guided missile used by Raiden that appears in most Metal Gear games; does not exist in the real world)
FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS ("Man-Portable Air Defense System, used by Raiden)
Rail Gun (used by Fortune, does not exist in the real world)
Melee Weapons:
High-Frequency Blade (a "ninjatō" or straightened katana. Capable of both lethal and non-lethal attacks by switching between the sharp and dull sides of the blade; can also be used to deflect gunfire. Used by the Ninja and then handed to Raiden; also used by Tengu Commandos. Does not exist in the real world)
Minshutō & Kyōwatō (literally means "democracy blade" and "republic blade" respectively; katana and wakizashi wielded by Solidus Snake)
Vamp's Hunting Knife(s)
The story opens in late 2007, two years after the events of Metal Gear Solid, on the George Washington Bridge in New York City. Solid Snake and Otacon now belong to Philanthropy, a UN-recognized fringe organization formed in order to eliminate the various Metal Gears constructed due to Revolver Ocelot's distribution of the Metal Gear REX blueprints on the black market. Snake, aided by Otacon via codec, is investigating the new Metal Gear RAY being developed by the Marines to guard against the proliferation of REXes. While the Marines transport RAY offshore aboard the oil tanker U.S.S. Discovery for testing, soldiers invade the ship by helicopter and dispose of all the Marines on duty above decks.
The mission turns bad rapidly as these troops, formerly of the Russian military and led by the disgraced Colonel Sergei Gurlukovich, seize the tanker and plant explosives aboard it. Snake personally runs into Gurlukovich's daughter Olga, and disables her with a tranquilizer gun, before proceeding into the ship's hold. A large unit of Marines is receiving a briefing from Scott Dolph, their commander, on the new RAY and its role, at the conclusion of which Ocelot strides on stage, applauding. Gurlukovich and his troops descend, taking Dolph hostage, leading to a Mexican standoff between the forces. The tension is broken as Ocelot betrays Gurlukovich, kills Dolph, and detonates the explosives, advising the remaining U.S. and Russian soldiers to swim for shore if they value their lives.
During the ensuing carnage, Liquid Snake's personality usurps Ocelot through his transplanted arm. After mocking the rapidly aging Solid Snake, he boards RAY, carves the ship in two with it, and escapes. Once Ocelot recovers, he notifies former president Solidus Snake that their mission had been successful.
Following these events, Solid Snake was declared dead and framed as the man responsible for the tanker spill, and the Big Shell decontamination plant was created to contain the purported toxins in the wake of the spill.
* * * * *
Plant Chapter
This chapter begins on April 29, 2009, two years after the Tanker incident, as video game players assume the role of Raiden, a rather novice FOXHOUND operative whose mission is to rescue the President and other hostages being held captive by a terrorist group aided by former Soviet soldiers in the Big Shell, a decontamination facility erected at sea to clean up the oil spill which resulted from the sinking of the Discovery. He is aided by his girlfriend Rosemary as data manager, and Colonel Roy Campbell as the mission commander.
Raiden discovers that the Big Shell is nothing but elaborate camouflage for the development of an advanced mobile fortress dubbed Arsenal Gear. Solidus Snake, with the assistance of the remnants of Gurlukovich's private army (now led by Olga) and Ocelot (who has claimed that Snake was responsible for the sinking of the Discovery and the death of Olga's father, Sergei) has seized the facility and is attempting to use it to fight the enigmatic Patriots responsible for the theft of RAY. Following an elaborate sequence of double-crosses it is revealed that Raiden and Olga have each been coerced - directly or indirectly - into assisting the Patriots in eliminating Solidus. Meanwhile, Snake is aboard, battling both sides in an attempt to destroy Arsenal. To this goal, he is assisted by Otacon, and his estranged step-sister Emma, who designs a computer virus which should disable Arsenal.
Once again, Ocelot reveals himself to be a double-agent, trying to kill his allies on behalf of the Patriots. Liquid then resurfaces through the grafted arm and declares his intention to use RAY to take on the Patriots, and goads Snake into following him while setting Arsenal Gear on a collision course with New York City. Snake then dives off Arsenal Gear in pursuit of Liquid. After Arsenal comes to rest, the Patriots, and their goal - control of the dissemination of information, in order to ensure an Orwellian peace - are revealed. Solidus hopes to use Raiden's implants to identify the Patriots. On the morning of April 30, 2009, over 200 years after George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States, Raiden eliminates Solidus atop Federal Hall (where Washington's inauguration occurred).
After the final credits roll, it is shown that Otacon is able to decode the viral disc provided by Emma and uncover its information. The information on the disc does reveal the identities of all twelve members of the Wisemen's Committee, the inner circle of The Patriots, with one of the names shockingly enough belonging to one of Snake and Otacon's biggest financial contributors. The disc also reveals that the Patriots did reside in Manhattan, but that they have all been dead for about a century.
___________________________________________________
Raiden's field commander was named Daniel Quinn ("Colonel"). His support team consisted of Maxine "Max" Work, an Asian woman who saves game data and quotes Shakespeare, and William "Doc" Wilson, the creator of GW. All three would turn out to be AIs. None of these characters survived to the final edition. Along with Stillman, these names were taken from the novel City of Glass.
There were two additional members of Dead Cell: Old Boy and Chinaman. Old Boy was Dead Cell's strategist and a former Nazi general, and was over 100 years old. Chinaman was Vietnamese and a native of Chinatown, and was an expert in martial arts (His movements intended to be like Jet Li), and has used most of Vamp's bullet parrying moves. Both were cut from game appearances -- Old Boy being first (who later was used as The End), and Chinaman next. The only place to see them is the animated footage of "The Liquidation Of Dead Cell."
Chinaman originally used most of the moves that would later become Vamp's, such as running up walls and over water as well as being a strong swimmer. Another ability of his was the dragon tattoo on his body coming alive in water. This would happen when the player battles with him in the Shell 2 Core filtration chamber, where Vamp is fought in the final game. However the player would also actually have to battle Chinaman underwater, and he would send sharks after Raiden if he started bleeding.
Liquid Snake, controlling Revolver Ocelot, activates Arsenal Gear's navigation system and sets the target as Federal Hall. This detail is never explained in the game, possibly for the same reason that the following scenes were removed.
A scene depicting Arsenal Gear's displacement of the Statue of Liberty and half of Manhattan was removed following the events of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
A short coda was to appear after the credits, a breaking newscast showing the Statue of Liberty's new resting place, Ellis Island (see above). The anchorwoman in this piece would've been Karen Hôjô, the heroine from Hideo Kojima's Policenauts.
Solidus Snake was the 43rd President, and James Johnson is the 44th.
Early concept art shows that Vamp was initially conceived as a woman, while Peter Stillman was originally planned to be a younger version of Ed Brown, also from Policenauts.
The AI speaking to Raiden during the final codec conversation is not GW, but another AI named JFK.
Both Ames and President Johnson initially thought Raiden was an assassin sent in by the Patriots to dispose of the President (though according to Ocelot, the President was in on the conspiracy- "Of course Johnson knew what was going on, but he played out his allotted part").
All three Snakes are (or were) undergoing advanced aging as a result of the cloning process.
Iroquois Pliskin and Rose were supposed to have blond hair -- Pliskin's dyed to cover his identity, and Rose's as her natural color.
In the passage where Raiden has to swim in order to reach Emma, the player was originally supposed to face sharks. The trick to overcoming them was for Raiden to strategically leave blood in certain places to lead them away and then swim past them before they could attack him.
As a child, Raiden took part in the Liberian Civil War.
Three additional game modes were planned that didn't make it to the final game: a Bomb Disposal mode (side-missions set in the Tanker and Plant stages where the player must locate and defuse Fatman's bombs), a Mantis Mask mode (where the player can read other characters' thoughts and detect their lies) and a two-player versus mode.
The Bomb Disposal missions were later integrated into Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance.
The idea of reading characters' thoughts was kept, but in a watered-down form. Instead, the player can only sense their own character's during CODEC conversations by pressing the R1 or R2 buttons.
The Arsenal Gear stage was designed to be much longer than it was in the finished game. One of the proposed areas was a temple wherein the player fought against Vamp (in the original plan, Chinaman appears in the Shell 2 Core filtration chamber instead of Vamp).
At the point where Solidus dies, Raiden was supposed to have cut the rope on Federal Hall's flagpole where an American flag was supposed to fall onto Solidus' body (albeit the reason for the patriotic music).
At the ending scene, American flags were supposed to be on all the flagpoles in New York.
Jack and Rose were named after the protagonists of the film Titanic, just as the names Hal and Dave appeared in the first MGS title.
Jack and Rose talk about King Kong and Godzilla. According to the GameSpot documentary, King Kong is Raiden and Godzilla is Snake. Raiden was brought from one place to another and used, and Snake, like Godzilla, was an experiment.
Spoilers end here.
Weapons
Many of the game's weapons are taken directly from existing military hardware, though some completely fictional weapons (such as Fortune's railgun) appear as well.
Pistols:
Heckler & Koch USP (German 9 mm auto-loader, used by Olga and then Snake)
Heckler & Koch MK23 "SOCOM" Mk23 Offensive Handgun System Trials - Phase Two Model (German .45 cal pistol. In the Real World, this model of the weapon was a prototype, and differs from the US Navy's Mk23 Mod O. Given to Raiden by Pliskin)
Makarov PM (Russian 9 mm semi-automatic pistol, used by some Russian Spetsnaz members and tossed overboard by Olga)
Colt Single Action Army (.45 Long Colt revolver, used by Ocelot)
Beretta 92F (Italian 9 mm semi-automatic pistol; United States Armed Forces' standard-issue sidearm, designated "M9;" used by Marines)
Beretta M9 tranquilizer pistol (modified to fire tranquilizer darts; does not exist in the real world)
GLOCK 18 (Austria 9 mm automatic pistol, used by Fatman, Spetsnaz reinforcement and Big Shell attack teams)
Sub-Machine Guns:
FN P90 (Belgian 5.7 mm Personal Defense Weapon, used by Tengu Commandos and Solidus)
Assault Rifles:
Kalashnikov AKS-74U (Russian 5.45 mm Compact Assault Rifle, based on the AK-74 which itself is based on the AK-47, used by most Russian soldiers and Raiden)
M4 Carbine (US 5.56 mm Assault Rifle, used by Marines, Navy SEALs, Pliskin, Snake, Raiden and Presidential Security teams)
Nikonov AN-94 (Russian 5.45 mm Assault Rifle, used by Big Shell Russian guards)
Sniper Rifles:
Heckler & Koch PSG1 (German 7.62 mm semi-automatic sniper rifle used by Pliskin and Raiden)
PSG-1T (modified to fire tranquilizer rounds; does not exist in the real world)
Shotguns:
Franchi SPAS-12 (Italian 12-gauge dual action shotgun, used by Big Shell attack teams)
Explosives:
Frag grenade
Stun grenade
Chaff Grenade (foils electronic surveillance systems; does not exist in the real world)
C-4 plastic explosive
M18A1 Claymore Antipersonnel Mine
Heavy Artillery:
M203 grenade launcher (U.S. 40 mm Grenade Launcher, used by Marines, Navy SEALs, and Pliskin/Snake and Presidential Security teams)
RGB6 Multi-Grenade Launcher (Croatian copy of the South African Milkor Mark 6 Grenade Launcher, used by Raiden)
Nikita Remote Control Rocket Launcher (fly-by-wire TV-guided missile used by Raiden that appears in most Metal Gear games; does not exist in the real world)
FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS ("Man-Portable Air Defense System, used by Raiden)
Rail Gun (used by Fortune, does not exist in the real world)
Melee Weapons:
High-Frequency Blade (a "ninjatō" or straightened katana. Capable of both lethal and non-lethal attacks by switching between the sharp and dull sides of the blade; can also be used to deflect gunfire. Used by the Ninja and then handed to Raiden; also used by Tengu Commandos. Does not exist in the real world)
Minshutō & Kyōwatō (literally means "democracy blade" and "republic blade" respectively; katana and wakizashi wielded by Solidus Snake)
Vamp's Hunting Knife(s)
